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Article #25651Re: Adding another Hard Drive??
From: turner
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1987 23:57
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1987 23:57
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in article <657@atari.UUCP>, leavens@atari.UUCP (Alex Leavens) says:
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+ in article <901@chinet.UUCP>, cabbie@chinet.UUCP (Richard Andrews) says:
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++ I dove into a Atari hard drive last night and started with my usual play
++ tactics. It seems that the Adaptek controller will support 2 hard disk
++ drives. The current software does not want to see the second drive.
++ (No, I didn't really expect it to.) (:>) Is there a patch that I can do
++ to the handler to enable the second drive? Neil?? Alex?? It would be neat
++ to add a second drive and power supply and have more storage!
++
+ If you've got a production drive, I think there's a switch on the
+ Atari controller board that allows you to set what logical unit the
+ drive is. Just change that, and...
it bloody well won't work. listen if you are going to speak as an
atari representive you have a responsiblity to know what you're
talking about....
atari does not do drive selection properly, instead the drive number
is stored as the high order bit of each SCSI command, hence a
special driver is needed before you can use two drives, not to
mention the fact that the formatter etc. doesn't know about a second
drive. If you want to see how it's done I suggest the current copy
of STapplications, there's a good article by Tom Love on a two drive
system.
+
+ --alex @ Atari
+
+ BIX:alexl. GEnie: ALEXLEAVENS AtariCorp: 408-745-2006
+
+ "How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!cae780!amdcad!sun!imagen!turner From: turner@imagen.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Adding another Hard Drive?? Message-ID: <975@imagen.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 18:57:23 EST Article-I.D.: imagen.975 Posted: Fri Mar 13 18:57:23 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Mar-87 19:45:05 EST References: <657@atari.UUCP> Organization: The Houses of the Holy Lines: 41